Posted on 09/13/2014 10:06:31 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Jay Gadberry has always voted for Sen. Mark Pryor, a Democrat, despite his own moderately conservative leanings.
After all, the two attended college together. Pryor even flew back to Arkansas when Gadberry’s oldest daughter was killed in a car accident a few years ago. “There’s no better guy than Mark Pryor,” said Gadberry, the president of a wealth management company in Little Rock.
Yet this year Gadberry plans to vote for Pryor’s Republican opponent, freshman Rep. Tom Cotton, because he’s fed up with the federal government, including its new health care law, which he says is “decimating” the economy.
Frustrated voters such as Gadberry are the reason that Pryor, an affable 12-year incumbent who’s the heir to an Arkansas political dynasty, is fighting a tough re-election battle in one of the closest contests in the nation.
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I am feeling better about this race. Cotton’s stump abilities have improved over time.
Every Republican running should base their campaign on tying their opponent to Obama. Tie him around their necks like a freaking anvil. It will sink them.
Pryor is decidedly not a Southern Democrat in the traditional sense of the term. He is an Obama Democrat and his voting record proves it. His campaign thinks that Arkansas voters are too stupid to understand the difference.
That is a lie. There are no Moderate and certainly no conservative leaning Democrats in elected office at the Federal level. They had been purged long ago.
There abuse of the country by standing with the Mulatto Mussolini is proof enough.
If you live in Arkansas, and I do, the sheer number of Negative Political Ads running in this state is unreal.
We also have added to the Senate race a nasty Governor’s race with the same kind of negative ads.
I am at the point I consider all of the people absolutely Corrupt and just might Vote, writing in, “None of the Above”. That is where my level of disgust is!!!!!!!!
Liberal Joe Lieberman, when he was a Democrat, now (I),was called a conservative.
Dear Arkansas voters: Vote the bum out! Thanks.
WHY IS NO GOP CANDIDATE RUNNING ON REPEALING OBAMACARE?
Never forget...EVERY senator running this year was the deciding vote for ObamaCare. He needed and got every Democrat vote. They should have BHO branded on their forehead because he owns them.
Joe Lieberman was never a Conservative, now the very last Democrat that could be called Conservative was Zell Miller.
Now they are all Socialists.
Listen folks......any American voter that votes for any Democrat running for office this year...ain’t hitting on all eight!!! Now...some of those Dem folks are not bad or evil people....but the people that control them like Obama, Reid, Pelosi are!!! The Democrat Party has had many an opportunity to march down to the White House and demand that POTUS Obama turn in his resignation. They have done no such thing, at all!!!
Therefore they are as responsible for the destruction of the United States of America....being brought forth by “Hate America” Obama and his Democrat Ilk!!! And....Senator Mark Pryor leads the pack!!! A vote cast for Pryor is a vote to further degrade and destroy our once great country!!! Arkansas voters of all political stripes should vote against Mark Pryor.....because he stands shoulder to shoulder with Obama & Reid!!!
If Cotton is talking AMNESTY and OPEN BORDERS, then the election is over, and Prior might as well send his resumes to K-Street and join Eric Cantor.
Of course the Republican Advisers (most of them gay, by the way) will tell him to STOP TALKING AMNESTY and instead talk about how he would support unanimous consent or something else that has NO MEANING AT ALL...just to try to make Cotton lose.
Why the Republicans keep paying these “Advisers” (most of them gay, by the way) TOTALLY ALLUDES ME...but they do. Go figure.
Nope. The Republicans are Socialists (the Establishment at least, with a few Conservatives not being so), the Democrats are Communist-Fascists.
It is an interesting history when you look at both parties from where they started to now.
The Republicans have also always been a Big Government party as have the Democrats.
Now both are as corrupt as they can be and totally useless.
I wouldn’t say always. The concept of big government as we see it now didn’t explode until the 1930s (though the groundwork was laid before then). Real shrinkage of government spending did occur under Harding/Coolidge (the last 2 Republicans who actually managed to do just that). Hoover, sadly, paved the way for the future and (as a Progressive who had been a Democrat as recently as 1920, switching parties only because he knew it would be a losing proposition to be one in that decade) was ill-equipped to deal with the 1929 crash.
If Coolidge had remained in office, the Depression might well have been reduced to a panic (many of which we had had and had recovered from in short order — Harding himself adequately and swiftly handled one at the end of Wilson’s term. Harding is often derided by historians as being a poor President, I consider him to have been amongst the best in the 20th century, economically at least. His downside was having corrupt Cabinet officials because of his trusting nature).
It is curious to note that FDR ran to Hoover’s right on fiscal austerity (a promise swiftly broken). FDR had no real template to follow with respect to the kind of expansionist government (far beyond anything accomplished under Wilson), so he was the trailblazer for the mess we have today. Sadly, after getting an entire generation (20 years) of people indoctrinated into expansion and “liberal” governance, it moved both parties to the left.
Eisenhower should’ve immediately attempted to roll it all back but did not, and virtually every Republican since has paid it only lip service (sincere or not, and that includes Reagan, unfortunately). Limitless government control, spending, et al, moved the Democrats from the austerity and self-control of Cleveland in the 1890s to Progressivism by the 1910s, Socialism by the 1930s and a gradual move towards Communism (that of in practice as opposed to the theory - Marxism is supposed to be lack of government, demonstrating the ultimate hypocrisy of the left).
Although you had two elements in the GOP (just as the Dems did 120 years ago), the Progressives and Conservatives, it was clear that FDR moved them to the left as there were only talk or piecemeal attempts to pull back his leftist agenda (the few remaining elected Republicans in the 1930s after the disastrous routs at the polls were left-leaning). Even as Conservatives made a comeback, they made no attempts (at least successful ones) to launch a drastic rollback to match the successes of the early 1920s.
What passes for Conservative today is much further to the left than decades past. The establishment itself has become Socialist, only interested in preserving its power and has no interest to shrink the size of government at all. Just preserving and managing the overbloated Socialist state the Democrats have enshrined.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2014/09/11/randpaul/MaEjghUYwQhAp1QkVlOupM/story.html
Rand Paul will be tough to beat in NH and ME.
Which means we would have at best, a 3 way race. Establishment vs Conservative vs Paul.
we are fatigued, and we needs to be marshalled.
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